Chapter 116: Black Moon

Chapter 116: Black Moon

“Near Kaja… tsk, this isn’t bad either!” Standing on a hilltop, Zheng Yichen chewed a piece of roasted meat, stretching his wings as much as he could. This action was like a person stretching their waist; doing it felt quite comfortable. Through the movement of his Alchemical Body, Zheng Yichen also learned about the situation in Kaja these past two days.

A large number of outsiders had flooded into Kaja, many of them power ful individuals. This made Zheng Yichen much more cautious when moving around. The materials used for this Alchemical Body were not of high quality; they were far inferior to Qin’s ‘Miku’. It was fine for fooling ordinary people or those with little power, but in the eyes of the strong, it was particularly easy to expose.

Therefore, the activity range of Zheng Yichen’s Alchemical Avatar in Kaja was greatly restricted. Of course, the impact of the Witch Hunt event was so huge that Zheng Yichen could still easily gather a considerable amount of related information.

The reason so many people gathered in Kaja was simply that the location of the Witch Hunt was closest to Kaja. Before the Sanctuary Church publicly announced the specific location of the Witch Hunt, this nearest city naturally became very popular.

“Where on earth… are you?” Zheng Yichen threw away the bone he was holding in his claw and muttered in a low voice. If Loris could give him some hints about the location, his preparations would undoubtedly be much easier. If he had known two months ago, he wouldn’t have minded preparing a grand ‘ascension feast’ for those participating in the Witch Hunt!

Unfortunately, Loris hadn’t given any information now, and he had no idea how the people from the Sanctuary Church had pinpointed Loris’s location.

“Damn it!” Swearing unhappily, Zheng Yichen folded his wings, gave a powerful jump, left the ground, and used the jumping momentum to spread his wings and fly into the air. Not knowing the location was just that—not knowing! Anyway, once the location was made public, he just needed to get there before most people!

At night, Zheng Yichen stared at the moon in the sky. The Otherworld also had a moon, but the marks on its surface were completely different from those on Earth. This world had two moons. The one visible was the White Moon, while the other was the Black Moon, difficult to observe with the naked eye. The phenomena of the full moon and the crescent moon were caused by the Black Moon blocking the White Moon.

Tonight was a full moon, but the White Moon, which should have been emitting a pure, silvery light, seemed to be covered by a thin red veil. Looking at it from afar gave an eerie feeling. Under the faint red moonlight, with the color of the moonlight changed, the originally hard-to-see Black Moon also began to show traces. Zheng Yichen didn’t know if others could see it, but with his dragon eyes, he saw it quite clearly…

The Black Moon was also quite mysterious in the Otherworld. Under normal circumstances, one could only observe the Black Moon when it blocked the White Moon. At other times, even if the Black Moon was right next to the White Moon, it seemed not to exist because the light of the White Moon naturally enveloped the Black Moon, giving it an almost invisible effect.

Compared to the directly visible White Moon, the rarely seen Black Moon, once visible, appeared exceptionally bizarre. That deep, darker-than-the-night-sky Black Moon seemed as if it could suck a person’s Soul in. The longer one looked, the more it stirred inner fear; the more one feared, the more fascinated one became… Staring too long, the Black Moon seemed to transform into a vortex, ready to pull one inside.

“…Having good vision is also a problem.” Shaking his head, Zheng Yichen withdrew his gaze. Fortunately, this Black Moon was usually enveloped by the White Moon’s light. Most people in the world only knew of the Black Moon’s existence but had never seen it. As for the crescent moon phenomenon, perhaps the White Moon’s light still had an effect at that time, so there were no reports of anyone having issues during a crescent moon.

After all, such phenomena had existed in this world for a very long time. In short, the moon and such were too far away from him. Even if they hid some secrets, it wasn’t something the current Zheng Yichen could concern himself with. Even if he wanted to explore, he couldn’t build a spacecraft…

As for why the Black Moon had such Mana tonight, on one hand, Zheng Yichen could see the Black Moon completely; on the other hand, the White Moon’s light was affected and became impure.

“It’s about to begin.” Qin looked at the White Moon in the sky and sighed softly. She didn’t plan to get involved in the Witch Hunt, neither on the Witch’s side nor the Human side. But since this was an action targeting Witches, she couldn’t help but feel a sense of shared sorrow.

“It’s beginning.” Dan Marina, walking ahead of Petty, stopped. She took a telescope from the bag Petty was carrying… of course, she got this item from Zheng Yichen’s place. She hadn’t been polite about it, just casually taking some small trinkets from Zheng Yichen when she left.

As for important things like Firearms and Hand Grenades—these novel items—in her view, they weren’t as interesting as these little trinkets, and she had no intention of touching them.

This telescope… its structure was simple, but its effect was excellent. Without the power of Magic, it could magnify distant scenery by nearly ten times, stronger than the effects of some eagle-eye-type Magic spells.

“Dan Marina sister, what are you looking at?” Seeing Dan Marina staring at the sky, looking not at the White Moon covered in a bloody hue but at an empty spot, Petty couldn’t help but ask.

“The Black Moon…” Dan Marina put away the telescope and said with a hint of nostalgia, “The last time I saw the Black Moon was almost a hundred years ago.”

“The Black Moon?” Petty stared near the White Moon for a long time but couldn’t see any trace of the Black Moon. She felt puzzled. The matter of the Black Moon was common knowledge; the changes in the White Moon were caused by the Black Moon. Yet, not many people talked about completely seeing the Black Moon. Petty even wondered, did the Black Moon really… exist?

“Your strength isn’t enough. Not being able to see the Black Moon is normal and also a good thing.” Dan Marina glanced at the confused Petty and didn’t explain further. “The Black Moon isn’t pleasant to look at, and seeing it doesn’t come without a cost. Also, to see the Black Moon, it must be at a specific time.”

Petty nodded. She had also read records about the White Moon turning into the Blood Moon, but this phenomenon hadn’t occurred for a very long time. Now it had appeared again. Thinking about what she had learned recently, she asked, “Is the Blood Moon related to Witches?”

“Well, perhaps it is.” Dan Marina shrugged slightly. What she knew was that every time a Witch’s power erupted uncontrollably, the Blood Moon would appear.

“Hmm? Is it over there?” Zheng Yichen looked at a faint black pillar that appeared in the sky as the night deepened. Following the top of this black pillar, which seemed to split the sky in two, he looked but couldn’t see any specific black trace… vaguely, it seemed… connected to the Black Moon?

“Find the person first, then talk!”